The Killer Angels | The Killer Angels and the Vietnam War
In the following essay, Grauke argues that the novel should be read in terms of the social and political effects that the Vietnam War had on American society. Focusing on Shaara’s interpretation of character, Grauke interprets the novel as a defense of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.
In his book, The Civil War in Popular Culture, Jim Cullen examines a number of Civil-War-inspired twentieth-century works in light of how they, to varying degrees, rewrite history, thus revealing the influence of a ‘‘social or political stress’’ present at the time of their creations. To Cullen, the sentimental, panegyric qualities of Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln should be understood within the context of the Great Depression, ‘‘a time of enormous social and psychological instability, [during which] Lincoln could simultaneously represent ideals of...
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